California Biographies
Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881
Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011
This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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LYNCH, JOHN. Was born in Ireland in 1829. Here he resided with his parents on a farm until nineteen
years of age, when he came to America and spent the first two years in New York City. The next
fourteen months were spent in Auburn in a woolen factory. He then went to New York, and took
passage aboard the ship " Racer," and came around Cape Horn, arriving at San Francisco about October
20, 1852. He went at once to the mines in Tuolumne County, where he remained until the fall of 1856,
when he returned to San Francisco and engaged in the milk business until September, 1858. He then
came to Lake County and settled in Scotts Valley, where farming and stock raising were conducted
until the fall of 1864, when he settled on his present place, consisting of two hundred and forty acres,
located in Big Valley, about two miles north-east from Kelseyville, where he is engaged in farming and
dairying. Mr. Lynch married, October 6, 1857, Miss Rosa Kearns, a native of Ireland. They have one
living child, David J., and have lost three : Catharine, James E. and John.